Greetings and Salutations! I've got a huge problem... and I'm seriously lost as to what I can do to get out of this hole I'm in. I was curious if you guys could take a look at my site and toss me a few suggestions. I know my site has a lot of competitors. I also know that what my site offers is unique and really a great deal for anyone looking for that sort of thing. It has returning customers that are very happy with what it offers, I am very greatful for them. The site was doing really great when it was ranked higher in Google. The site is TemplatesResourcedotcom (obviously the dot there is a .) Right now the site is looking a bit ugly. I have taken almost all of the graphics that were "pretty" text, and maken them plain text. I've also gone through and reworked headers. It's a huge work in progress. Over a year ago, Google pentalized my site very heavily and it's been gone for its main keywords ever since. I've seen on occassion, a few appearances in 100-200 results.. but it doesn't last. I'm typically 600+ or gone altogether. Google does not show a whole lot of backlinks for my site. I had quite a bit less and my site was doing fine in the results some time ago. I know adding fresh content and new links always plays an important part in SEO and getting your site to move up. My problem is, there has to be a huge pentalty on my site for some reason. I've sent reinclusion requests and they haven't helped either. I've asked in my messages to Google, if they could provide any input as to what is wrong with my site, but they never respond. I'm lost! Not only is this affecting me, but due to all these issues, it is affecting my customers as well. I would love to be spending the extra time loading up new items but alas, I'm really stuck with this SEO issue. I would also love to hire an SEO expert, but due to the fact that my sites income barely pays for itself to stay up and running, I'm not able to unless I see results. - I did want to point out.. Today I have seen a slight increase in keywords that I used to rank very well for. I'm in the 100-200 range. It seriously looks like some kind of crazy penalty, for what ~ I have no idea. Thank you for your time.. I appreciate it!
Whats your competitors doing right now ? I mean did you ever been like in top 10-20 for some of your keywords ?
I think you transforming the code SE friendly would help you to get ranked higher. Your code seems to be very long. Try to place all style information into the css file, and put the javascripts into external js files.
I think the best my site ever did was on page two for the search 'web templates'. It used to do excellent for many other keywords, infact it often showed up as #1-3 for less popular words and phrases. Now I'm entirely gone or really low. My competitors have a lot of sites that link back to them that are related. I've heard some spam and scam stories about a few. I don't want to spam. The worst thing I did was participate in the COOP here at DP. I wasn't aware that Google didn't like that till I read into what might have happened to my site. As far as I was concerned it seemed like a good way for people to find my site. It was bringing in more traffic to my site than Google is with my results being this bad. Infact, it's almost tempting to just join again, lol.